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  • Extra Crunch is now available in Greece, Ireland and Portugal

    We’re excited to announce that we’ve added Extra Crunch support in Ireland, Portugal and Greece. That adds to our existing support in Europe as we are already in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain and the U.K.Portugal’s 10 million citizens are no strangers to startup investment, More

    Extra Crunch is now available in Greece, Ireland and Portugal
  • TransferWise to offer investment products but has ‘no plans’ to

    TransferWise, the London-headquartered international money transfer service recently valued at $3.5 billion, has secured an additional license with U.K. regulators to enable it to offer investment products in the future.This will mean that U.K. customers who have money deposited in a TransferWise multi-currency or so-called “borderless” account will be More

    TransferWise to offer investment products but has no plans to become a bank
  • Wirecard, the disgraced German payments firm backed by SoftBank, files

    The house of cards has well and truly collapsed for Wirecard, the German payments company that has been accused of accounting fraud. Today it announced that its German operation Wirecard AG was applying for insolvency proceedings in a Munich court, the Amtsgericht München, due to “impending insolvency and over-indebtedness.” It also issued a More

    Wirecard, the disgraced German payments firm backed by SoftBank, files for insolvency over 1.3B in loans coming due
  • Amsterdam ejects Airbnb et al from three central districts in

    Another brick in the wall for vacation rental platforms: Amsterdam is booting Airbnb and other such platforms from three districts in the city’s old center from July 1, further tightening its rules for such services.In other districts in the famous city of canals, vacation rentals will only be permitted with More

    Amsterdam ejects Airbnb et al from three central districts in latest P2P platform limits
  • France’s api.video raises $5.5M to make it easier for developers

    Api.video, a “developer-first” video platform that makes it easier for websites and apps to video features, has raised $5.5 million, in a seed round led by London venture capital firm Blossom Capital. Also participating is Kima Ventures and a number of angel investors.Previous backers include Octave Klaba (founder of OVH), More

    Frances api.video raises $5.5M to make it easier for developers to add video features